System and method for determining geolocation of wireless access point or wireless device
In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
1. A method, comprising:
receiving at least one URL comprising a geolocation coordinate and a sender identifier from one or more first wireless devices into a wireless network access point; and
processing one or more geolocation records associated with a web browser by the one or more first wireless devices to determine a geolocation for the wireless network access point.
2. The method of claim 1 comprising at least one of:
providing the at least one URL from the wireless network access point to a second wireless device; and
processing the provided at least one URL in the second wireless device to determine a geolocation of the second wireless device.
3. The method of claim 2 comprising determining an error in the geolocation of the second wireless device from a signal strength between the second wireless device and the wireless network access point.
4. The method of claim 1 comprising processing the one or more geolocation records in the wireless network access point to determine a geolocation of the wireless network access point.
5. The method of claim 4 comprising at least one of:
determining a signal strength between the wireless network access point and the one or more first wireless devices; and
storing the signal strength in a geolocation record corresponding to the respective one or more first wireless device.
6. The method of claim 5 comprising processing the signal strengths of the one or more geolocation records to determine an error in geolocation of the wireless network access point.
7. The method of claim 1 comprising recording a signal strength of a communication with the one or more first wireless devices into a geolocation record corresponding to the one or more first wireless devices.
8. The method of claim 7 comprising determining an error in the geolocation using the signal strength of the one or more geolocation records.
9. The method of claim 1 comprising processing the one or more geolocation records to track movement of the wireless network access point.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless network access point provides wireless network service to the one or more first wireless devices.
11. The method of claim 1 , comprising receiving at least one timestamp from the one or more first wireless devices.
12. A wireless access point configured to provide wireless network access to one or more wireless devices comprising one or more transient data sources and one or more transient data clients, the wireless access point configured to:
receive, from the one or more transient data sources, a URL including a geolocation coordinate and a sender identifier from one or more first wireless devices into the wireless network access point associated with the one or more first wireless devices; and
process one or more geolocation records indicating the geolocation coordinate to determine a geolocation of the one or more transient data clients.
13. The wireless access point of claim 12 , wherein the wireless access point includes or is coupled to a location history manager and wherein the location history manager is configured to perform at least one of:
receive the URL from the one or more transient data sources, wherein the URL comprises a timestamp from the one or more first wireless devices; and
store the timestamp in the geolocation record.
14. The wireless access point of claim 13 , wherein the location history manager is configured to receive a request for the one or more geolocation records from the one or more transient data clients.
15. The wireless access point of claim 12 , wherein the wireless access point includes or is coupled to a location history manager and wherein the location history manager is configured to provide the geolocation of the one or more transient data clients to the one or more transient data clients.
16. The wireless access point of claim 12 , wherein the wireless access point includes or is coupled to a location history manager and wherein the location history manager is configured to provide the geolocation records to the one or more transient data clients.
17. The wireless access point of claim 12 , wherein the wireless access point includes or is coupled to a location history manager and wherein the location history manager is configured to process the one or more geolocation records to track the movement of the wireless access point.
18. A method, comprising:
processing, by a wireless device, one or more URLs from a wireless access point, the one or more URLs comprising geolocation information and a sender identifier received from at least one mobile device associated with the wireless access point, to calculate a geolocation of the wireless device.
19. The method of claim 18 comprising processing a signal strength between the wireless access point and the wireless device to determine an error of the geolocation.
20. The method of claim 18 comprising retrieving the oneor more URLs from a URL history manager of the wireless access point.